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With Care: Action Lab zwischen Theater, Publika und Sorgearbeit

Bühnenmütter e.V.

It's a shame you're going to be a mother. I always liked your art.

How about a toolkit to enable and facilitate theater visits by people with children? It is time to break down barriers and fulfill the right to participate in arts and culture, all parents and others with care responsibilities have. This lab has produced a booklet with concrete guidance and proposals for a transformation of theaters, festivals and spaces, modes of production and funding.

In two think tanks (September 23-24, Hamburg Kampnagel and October 7-9, Berlin Feuerwache), recipients and creators in the performing arts community, whose everyday lives are shaped by care work, met with representatives from the fields of festival curation, artistic direction and theater production. The resulting toolkit builds on an in-depth knowledge of the artists/mothers from the research project "BEYOND RE:production – Mothering in the performing arts" (2022) and members of the initiative "Bühnenmütter".

Family friendliness is part of many anti-discrimination struggles in theater as a social structure. As a space for feminist visions and intersectional futures, the artist lab brought parents and other people with care responsibilities into focus: as fallow potential audiences of the performing arts.

Impressions

Several people are standing at a table on which work materials are presented. lie on a table. © Julian Hülser
Three people sit in a circle and talk. © Julian Hülser
You can see people who are in a work discussion. © Julian Hülser
Three people are sitting at a table talking. © Julian Hülser
Two people are looking into an open book, which one of them is holding in his hands. © Julian Hülser
A group photo © Julian Hülser

More detailed documentation of the lab can be found behind the following keywords, which invite you to browse.

Participants

Sascia Bailer (Expert), Marcia Breuer (Expert), Katharina Binder (Organizational Production Management), Janina Benduski (Expert), Lotte Dohmen (Expert), Sara Dec (Expert), Nora Elberfeld (Expert), Jochen Eibeler (Expert), Frida Guilia Franceschini (expert), Lion Frenster (Video), Carolin Hochleichter (Patron), Julian Hülser (Photography), Kaja Jackstedt (Expert), Sylvi Kretzschmar (Management Team), Angela Kecinski (Expert), Anja Kolmanics (Expert), Anne Kersting (Expert), Bernadette Kis (Expert), Teresa Monfared (Management Team), Annika Mendrala (Host), Miriam Neubauer (Graphics), Carla Nettlnbrekear (Expert), Carlotta Ortinger (Hospitanz), Liz Rech (Management Team), Eva Maria Stüting (Patin), Moritz von Rappard (Process Support), Franziska Werner (Patin) & Maria Walser (Expert)